Sophos was praised for its wide desktop coverage and ease-of-use as it outperformed solutions from Network Associates and Symantec,

Federal Computer Week tested Sophos MailMonitor for SMTP against a number of viruses concluding: "The Sophos technology worked wonderfully in our test environments and trapped every single virus we threw in its way."

The full review can be found in the 5 August 2002 edition of Federal Computer Week.